Here's a truly outstanding truth-drop from Jeffrey Sachs - talking to Alex and Alexander from the Duran. FIRST HAND WITNESS - no gossip whatsoever. All the context you need (and would have already had, if Big-News was doing the job so many still seem to think they are, despite all shocking, dangerous and overwhelming evidence to the contrary)
Varoufakis, Horton, Krainer, Klarenberg, your mentioning of people I admire. However, your educated rant is their equal.
The biggest mistake people make is positively or negatively falling for Trump whose only the latest propaganda. He's just a small mind inside a small dick held by small hands, all attached to strings held by Bigger Dicks that had spare strings to drag Biden's corpse. Know your enemy, not their propaganda!
Thank you sincerely, Mike - and you are So right (and the distractions are SO LOUD now - but also SO DUMB!) you sort of wonder sometimes, why everyone isn't laughing at our doltish elites (and what might happen if we did, instead of obeying them). WRT Trump, I think Kissinger (who I despise in detail) had it about right. (Paraphrasing very loosely) "Sometimes a figure comes along to mark the end of one age and the beginning of a new one. This doesn't mean they are the shapers of it, nor even necessarily aware of their role." If it wasn't Don-Don, it would be the equal opposite dipshit sheepdogs from the sellout cabal of Lawyers still pretending to be left (see funky links in my next piece). Backhanded luck for me (and perhaps you also, as a fellow Xer) I still remember why we're not supposed to f@ck around with nuclear war brinksmanship, as Biden's team (blinken and nod) did, relentlessly. So I'm still pretty agnostic about the specific shape of our decline. Brutal economics is bad, literal cinder, worse! (as I once said to a critic - "piles of radioactive ashes have no reproductive rights")
Apt and powerful quote. The receivers are a bigger problem than the sellers. It's absurdism extremis yet decades of their conditioning in the national anthem, evangelism, militarism, celebrity, cartoons and soapies makes it real. However, being brainwashed is more convenient than being conscientious so I don't excuse selfish stupidity and wilful ignorance (of the Public with world average IQ and higher).
"The receivers are a bigger problem than the sellers." Dude - that sums up everything I learned as a kid, growing up in an idealist commune that descended into a demented cult. It isn't the push you have to fear, it's the pull from the suckers "Feed us meaning, purpose, anything!"
I've experienced it harshly first hand. After I exposed corruption in a small town, involving a popular figure and party, the social backlash against me was immediate. It took me years to win the majority over, but when the politicians higher up sought to destroy me, people turned away. That was a litmus test, making me realise that there's no such thing as friendship. Maybe it's always been this way, but our Era of Sociopaths and Psychopaths is more visible, one power hungry arsehole more powerful that 100,000 looking at their feet.
Superb! - And I absolutely LOVE the range of quotations - clearly like me, you were an early and ever after stalwart library omnivore! And hat's off to you for that! (we're a dying species, though I swear the fun of the range justifies the work, every damn time)
I declined the offer of Head Librarian Prefect when it was offered to me one grade earlier than normal - ha ha. Winners of school prizes had to choose from a teacher selection of books. I upended that not-a-prize scenario by refusing to receive the 'awards', and thus became the first to be holding a Stephen King book in one hand, and Robert Ludlum in the other. Admittedly, I haven't read a book in a long time, 'cause the internet can sometimes feel like a book a day.
Here's a truly outstanding truth-drop from Jeffrey Sachs - talking to Alex and Alexander from the Duran. FIRST HAND WITNESS - no gossip whatsoever. All the context you need (and would have already had, if Big-News was doing the job so many still seem to think they are, despite all shocking, dangerous and overwhelming evidence to the contrary)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbFvPFgJW5c
And Mr Fish - (the best political cartoonist alive?) has once again absolutely nailed it.
https://scheerpost.com/2025/03/10/nothing-left/
The final words in that cartoon were perfect. If it were drawn today, it would probably mention Katy Perry in space.
You know times are tough for sure, when, well - just have a look (I owe you a giggle)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Lt8UruZqFfA
Varoufakis, Horton, Krainer, Klarenberg, your mentioning of people I admire. However, your educated rant is their equal.
The biggest mistake people make is positively or negatively falling for Trump whose only the latest propaganda. He's just a small mind inside a small dick held by small hands, all attached to strings held by Bigger Dicks that had spare strings to drag Biden's corpse. Know your enemy, not their propaganda!
Thank you sincerely, Mike - and you are So right (and the distractions are SO LOUD now - but also SO DUMB!) you sort of wonder sometimes, why everyone isn't laughing at our doltish elites (and what might happen if we did, instead of obeying them). WRT Trump, I think Kissinger (who I despise in detail) had it about right. (Paraphrasing very loosely) "Sometimes a figure comes along to mark the end of one age and the beginning of a new one. This doesn't mean they are the shapers of it, nor even necessarily aware of their role." If it wasn't Don-Don, it would be the equal opposite dipshit sheepdogs from the sellout cabal of Lawyers still pretending to be left (see funky links in my next piece). Backhanded luck for me (and perhaps you also, as a fellow Xer) I still remember why we're not supposed to f@ck around with nuclear war brinksmanship, as Biden's team (blinken and nod) did, relentlessly. So I'm still pretty agnostic about the specific shape of our decline. Brutal economics is bad, literal cinder, worse! (as I once said to a critic - "piles of radioactive ashes have no reproductive rights")
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Apt and powerful quote. The receivers are a bigger problem than the sellers. It's absurdism extremis yet decades of their conditioning in the national anthem, evangelism, militarism, celebrity, cartoons and soapies makes it real. However, being brainwashed is more convenient than being conscientious so I don't excuse selfish stupidity and wilful ignorance (of the Public with world average IQ and higher).
"The receivers are a bigger problem than the sellers." Dude - that sums up everything I learned as a kid, growing up in an idealist commune that descended into a demented cult. It isn't the push you have to fear, it's the pull from the suckers "Feed us meaning, purpose, anything!"
I've experienced it harshly first hand. After I exposed corruption in a small town, involving a popular figure and party, the social backlash against me was immediate. It took me years to win the majority over, but when the politicians higher up sought to destroy me, people turned away. That was a litmus test, making me realise that there's no such thing as friendship. Maybe it's always been this way, but our Era of Sociopaths and Psychopaths is more visible, one power hungry arsehole more powerful that 100,000 looking at their feet.
https://www.mikehampton.co.uk/p/your-wilful-ignorance-destroying-our-world
Superb! - And I absolutely LOVE the range of quotations - clearly like me, you were an early and ever after stalwart library omnivore! And hat's off to you for that! (we're a dying species, though I swear the fun of the range justifies the work, every damn time)
I declined the offer of Head Librarian Prefect when it was offered to me one grade earlier than normal - ha ha. Winners of school prizes had to choose from a teacher selection of books. I upended that not-a-prize scenario by refusing to receive the 'awards', and thus became the first to be holding a Stephen King book in one hand, and Robert Ludlum in the other. Admittedly, I haven't read a book in a long time, 'cause the internet can sometimes feel like a book a day.